We’d like to share some terrific news! Mary Tinetti, Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Public Health at the Yale University School of Medicine, is a 2009 MacArthur Fellow. Her affiliation with the Foundation and the field of aging is long and deep. She has been the long-time leader of our Yale University Center of Excellence, a former program chair for the Beeson Award, and a committed champion of geriatric care. Her primary work has mary-tinetti_more_enlargedbeen understanding and preventing falls in older adults. How apt, then, that the announcement from the MacArthur Foundation came today, on National Falls Prevention Awareness Day. The Foundation offers Dr. Tinetti its congratulations and beams with pride.